So O.J. Simpson is penning a confession in which there’s no admission of guilt? And the many millions he’ll make peddling it won’t go to his victims’ families per the civil judgment against him, because he can remain bankrupt as he rakes it all in?
Just more evidence that true details can paint a false picture, or true pictures we reject as unreal, anyway.
Public education research most days isn’t much more useful or definitive than our so-called justice system. Maybe money and power are always the same old story. Maybe breaking news is just broken, and good news isn’t any more real than bad until we somehow get wise enough to face up to the difference.
AS a longtime subscriber, I have this Kappan in hard copy if anyone wants context (or cartoons!) to go along with this —
The 16th Bracey Report on
The Condition of Public Education
When political considerations define the agenda for or shape
the findings of research, the results can seem frustrating or silly —
but often the losers are students and teachers.
BY GERALD W. BRACEY
GERALD W. BRACEY is an associate for the High/Scope
Foundation, Ypsilanti, Mich. His most recent book is “Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered” (Heinemann, 2006).
“Is this the way the world ends, not with a lie believed but truth disbelieved?”
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